If everything is empty space
with patterns of energy running through it, then it is these patterns, or
the wavelengths or vibrations of these patterns that determine whether
something is a car, a person, a thought, etc... Differences in these
frequencies determine the exact form of the field in its every detail.
There is a range of vibrations that compose ordinary human consciousness
and manifestation on the physical plane. For example, our eyes perceive
light frequencies between red and violet. We know that infrared and
ultraviolet rays exist but they are beyond our visible range of
perception. Our ears perceive sound waves between 20 and 20,000 Hz. Dogs
can hear pitches that are higher. Just because people can't hear it
doesn't mean the sound doesn't exist. We can't perceive x-rays or
microwaves with our senses, but have developed technology that is more
sensitive than our physical senses that can measure these waves.
Vibrations existing outside of the of the range of the five human physical
senses normally escape our conscious perception.

Clairvoyants and healers
either come programmed with an expanded range of perception, or can alter
the state or frequency of their of consciousness in order to perceive
energy vibrations outside of the normal human range. Higher frequencies
and forms are invisible to most humans because these higher frequencies
are beyond our perception. (Bentov) Through altered states of
consciousness one can expand the range of their perception to perceive
these higher frequencies.

In Stalking the Wild
Pendulum, Itzhak Bentov created a strong metaphor to demonstrate the
relationship of altered states of consciousness to "extra-sensory
perception." He compares consciousness to listening to a radio. When
listening to a radio, the closest station broadcasting on a certain
frequency is the one we hear, but there are many stations broadcasting on
that frequency that we don't hear because of the noise of the one
broadcasting that is closest to us. If we can selectively turn down the
volume of that local station (or our physical consciousness), and turn up
the volume of other stations we can perceive broadcasts that generally go
unnoticed.

People with exceptional
hearing (sensitives) may pick up the signals from the weaker stations
despite the noise of the local one, but anyone who turns down that loud
station should be able to perceive these signals as well. This is how one
can develop "psychic abilities" through meditation, or learning how to
quiet the consciousness. It is interesting to note that many "normal"
people report paranormal experiences through dreams or during
sleep-states, for at these times one's consciousness is naturally more
quiet than during waking hours. (Bentov, 113-14)

Recall the analogy of thought
to the movement of water, where dropping a pebble in the water produces
waves that spread out and diminish in all directions, but pushing the
water with one's hand allows one to direct the flow. Well, if the surface
of the water is choppy and full of waves because it's constantly being
bombarded with thought-boulders, it is unlikely that we'll notice the
ripples of pebbles. By calming the surface of the water (quieting the
consciousness) we can perceive the finer ripples or waves.

The Fine Line between Genius
and Madness

When I first began
consciously perceiving things (such as auras) that other people apparently
weren't, I worried that I was going insane. I subsequently explored these
events further and discovered that many people shared my experiences. As I
had had no knowledge of these matters at the time I came to believe that
what I had experienced was "real," and not manufactured through distortion
of perceptions due to a malfunctioning brain.

It then occurred to me that
perhaps the many people in mental institutions who see or hear things that
"aren't there," are in fact simply perceiving energy beyond the normal
human range of perception. I have since encountered this theory numerous
times. What would separate these individuals from "psychics" is an
inability to recognize that their experiences are extraordinary. The
result is that they think everyone else is strange because they don't
share their perceptions. In this scenario one might say that the
"schizophrenic" was not trying to actively quiet his or her consciousness,
or that local station, but in fact was perceiving an undifferentiated
mixture of signals from several stations including the local one.

Healers: Receivers,
Transmitters and Directors of Energy

Experiments have demonstrated
that not only are those who are adept at quieting their consciousness
better receivers of information via electromagnetic waves, but they are
also better generators or channels of this energy.

A study of electrostatic
charge on electrically-isolated meditators revealed that exceptional
meditators can produce large surges in bodily electrostatic energy. The
experiment compared 10 average meditators with 9 "'exceptional'"
meditators (healers) in a Copper Wall Lab designed to electrically isolate
the subjects from the ground. To detect electrostatic potential each
meditator's body and the walls were "floated" on single-ended electrometer
inputs. In 45 minute sessions, no body-potential surges reached 4 volts in
the regular meditators, but in sessions with the healers surges ranged
from 4 volts to 221 volts (with a median of 8.3 volts). When measuring the
body-potential surges of the healers during a healing session, surges were
recorded ranging from 4 volts to 190 volts. At the high end of this
spectrum the surges are 105 times greater than EKG voltages and 106 times
larger than EEG voltages, a phenomenon that can not be accounted for by
any presently known biological processes. (Green)

A person adept at altering
their state of consciousness can learn how to consciously receive and
interpret energy or information from other living systems, to generate
powerful energy surges themselves, and to direct the flow of this energy.
These skills are the foundation of energy healing, or healing through the
aura.